Extremity Quotes
Extremity Quote of the day
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.
I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.
We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable.
Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.
If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.
At the extremity of hardship comes relief and at the tightening of the chains of trials and tribulations comes ease.
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.
Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity.
The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.
I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--
When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of such a mercy
Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.
I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire. In the extremity of war, character is revealed.
The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.
I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.
I was taught as a young person that the far political right and the far political left aren't located on a spectrum but on a circle, where they inevitably meet in their extremity.
PhD, MFA, self-taught - the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.
Extremities are flawed. Moderation is ideal, save for one occasion.So damn these eyes that weep too much.This mind that thinks too much. But never this heart that loves too much.